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Monday, May 27, 2019
Hi and welcome! : Interview with author Caren Gallimore
Hi and welcome! : Interview with author Caren Gallimore: For my first author interview, I selected award winning author, illustrator and editor Caren Gallimore. In Gallimore&...
Interview with author Caren Gallimore
For my first author interview, I selected award-winning author, illustrator and editor Caren Gallimore.
In Gallimore's debut novel WANTED the reader can "ride the traills of imagination" with her main character Caitlyn Daniels who "didn’t plan to fall in love, least of all with an outlaw. Life was too exciting to waste it on domesticities. However, when Dakota Cabe rode into town, she lost her heart to him."
My questions and Caren's answers:
Caren when did you first consider yourself a writer?
At the age of ten when my best friend and I created our cat magazine.
Do you have a specific writing style?
I’m a pantser. I relate my writing process to conversing with a dear friend who calls out of the blue and says, “Guess what happened?” She tells me, and I’m flabbergasted by her news.
It’s the same with my characters, I write down their news and in the process discover what all happened. The preceding event that led up to the calamity is as exciting as their plans to resolve it. I find out even more about my characters and how their experiences came to be. From there I just follow them around. Sometimes one of my characters does something so out of place and contradictory to what I expect, I’m stunned. Regardless, I write it down and eventually it all makes sense.
How did you come up with the title?
My first choice was Leather and Lace, but the title was already taken. Wanted was the next logical choice because of my main male character’s unfortunate bounty on his head and my heroine desire for the man under the rough veneer. I assumed the publisher would change the title so I always considered it my working title. They didn’t change it and that is what it is printed under. Gasp.
I’m a pantser. I relate my writing process to conversing with a dear friend who calls out of the blue and says, “Guess what happened?” She tells me, and I’m flabbergasted by her news.
It’s the same with my characters, I write down their news and in the process discover what all happened. The preceding event that led up to the calamity is as exciting as their plans to resolve it. I find out even more about my characters and how their experiences came to be. From there I just follow them around. Sometimes one of my characters does something so out of place and contradictory to what I expect, I’m stunned. Regardless, I write it down and eventually it all makes sense.
How did you come up with the title?
My first choice was Leather and Lace, but the title was already taken. Wanted was the next logical choice because of my main male character’s unfortunate bounty on his head and my heroine desire for the man under the rough veneer. I assumed the publisher would change the title so I always considered it my working title. They didn’t change it and that is what it is printed under. Gasp.
I didn’t realize how many Wanted titles there were or their distinctions. 😊
Is there a message in your novel you want readers to grasp?
As hokey as this sounds, love is stronger than any devil you may encounter, and faith in your loved one when circumstances contradict can make that commitment even stronger. And, need I say, women are tough.
Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
Finding uninterrupted time to write. I am not a person that can write wherever. Again, I relate it back to an intense conversation with a friend. You don’t want to put her on hold or have other people eavesdropping on you. You want to sit down and listen intently.
What was the hardest part of writing your book?
Not to get overly involved with my characters and interfering with their decisions. And, also uninterrupted time, especially for edits. I certainly don't expect life to pause while I’m writing, but I find it challenging to do edits if I have conflicting interests.
Is there a message in your novel you want readers to grasp?
As hokey as this sounds, love is stronger than any devil you may encounter, and faith in your loved one when circumstances contradict can make that commitment even stronger. And, need I say, women are tough.
Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
Finding uninterrupted time to write. I am not a person that can write wherever. Again, I relate it back to an intense conversation with a friend. You don’t want to put her on hold or have other people eavesdropping on you. You want to sit down and listen intently.
What was the hardest part of writing your book?
Not to get overly involved with my characters and interfering with their decisions. And, also uninterrupted time, especially for edits. I certainly don't expect life to pause while I’m writing, but I find it challenging to do edits if I have conflicting interests.
Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?
From a very early age, I loved to draw and always had a little story to go with the drawing. My spelling was atrocious, but what can you expect at the age of five?
Did you learn anything from writing your book and what was it?
It’s not so much about being a writer as it is to write the story. I think everyone has a story to tell but it needs to be on paper so others can read it?
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Just write. Never stop to edit until you are done. Write even if you have nothing to say. When I’m stumped in my writing, I write about that, and I also write the reason why. Such as: Where am I going with this? This conflicts with my character's background. Why does it? Why would she act so out of character? Did I miss something? It’s incredible what I discover just by writing my thoughts. I ask myself questions and write down the answers. Why would she say that? What did he feel when she said that? I also write scenes in reverse switching characters, and change the POV to get to the core of the scene.
Do you have anything specific you want to say to your readers?
Thank you for reading my work. I put my heart into it and hope it was all you expected it to be. Please let me know your thoughts.
Are experiences based on someone you know or events in your own life?
When I was a preteen, I camped with the girl scouts at a pony express station in Utah that no longer exists. That experience has stayed with me my entire life. I fell in love with the west and the ruggedness of the people that lived there.
Please share some pointers about the storyline.
Wanted is a love story set in 1885 in a fictional town in Colorado. The two main characters are Dakota Cabe and Kaitlin Daniels. The story starts out in Bisweak Colorado where the two meet.
This is from my back cover which I hope tells you about the storyline:
Caitlyn Daniels didn’t plan to fall in love, least of all with an outlaw. Life was too exciting to waste it on domesticities.
However, when Dakota Cabe rode into town, she lost her heart to him. His reputation, which left most women in need of smelling salts, didn’t deter her; she saw the man beneath the tough façade of a hard-hearted desperado. When the sheriff forced him out of town, she was devastated. She understood his reasons to protect her from bounty hunters, but she’d rather live on the run than without him. But he didn’t ask, and she didn’t tell him she was pregnant. Her pride wouldn’t allow her.
Eighteen months later, John Wakefield, a vindictive outlaw, kidnaps her son and her friend. Her pride was meaningless. She’d make a deal with the devil if that could change things.
Alone, but not without skills of her own, she rides out after John Wakefield and his gang.
In her desperate pursuit to rescue her son, she collides with Dakota, surprisingly on the same mission. She needs a man as cold, brutal, and cunning as the man who has her son; she needs Dakota Cabe. And she wasn’t too proud to beg if necessary, but she didn’t have to.
Former lovers, now daring desperados they put their past aside to save their son. Together they confront vicious outlaws; friends turned enemies and an unruly love neither of them can deny nor control.
From a very early age, I loved to draw and always had a little story to go with the drawing. My spelling was atrocious, but what can you expect at the age of five?
Did you learn anything from writing your book and what was it?
It’s not so much about being a writer as it is to write the story. I think everyone has a story to tell but it needs to be on paper so others can read it?
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Just write. Never stop to edit until you are done. Write even if you have nothing to say. When I’m stumped in my writing, I write about that, and I also write the reason why. Such as: Where am I going with this? This conflicts with my character's background. Why does it? Why would she act so out of character? Did I miss something? It’s incredible what I discover just by writing my thoughts. I ask myself questions and write down the answers. Why would she say that? What did he feel when she said that? I also write scenes in reverse switching characters, and change the POV to get to the core of the scene.
Do you have anything specific you want to say to your readers?
Thank you for reading my work. I put my heart into it and hope it was all you expected it to be. Please let me know your thoughts.
Are experiences based on someone you know or events in your own life?
When I was a preteen, I camped with the girl scouts at a pony express station in Utah that no longer exists. That experience has stayed with me my entire life. I fell in love with the west and the ruggedness of the people that lived there.
Please share some pointers about the storyline.
Wanted is a love story set in 1885 in a fictional town in Colorado. The two main characters are Dakota Cabe and Kaitlin Daniels. The story starts out in Bisweak Colorado where the two meet.
This is from my back cover which I hope tells you about the storyline:
Caitlyn Daniels didn’t plan to fall in love, least of all with an outlaw. Life was too exciting to waste it on domesticities.
However, when Dakota Cabe rode into town, she lost her heart to him. His reputation, which left most women in need of smelling salts, didn’t deter her; she saw the man beneath the tough façade of a hard-hearted desperado. When the sheriff forced him out of town, she was devastated. She understood his reasons to protect her from bounty hunters, but she’d rather live on the run than without him. But he didn’t ask, and she didn’t tell him she was pregnant. Her pride wouldn’t allow her.
Eighteen months later, John Wakefield, a vindictive outlaw, kidnaps her son and her friend. Her pride was meaningless. She’d make a deal with the devil if that could change things.
Alone, but not without skills of her own, she rides out after John Wakefield and his gang.
In her desperate pursuit to rescue her son, she collides with Dakota, surprisingly on the same mission. She needs a man as cold, brutal, and cunning as the man who has her son; she needs Dakota Cabe. And she wasn’t too proud to beg if necessary, but she didn’t have to.
Former lovers, now daring desperados they put their past aside to save their son. Together they confront vicious outlaws; friends turned enemies and an unruly love neither of them can deny nor control.
Can you share a little of your current work with us?
ANOTHER TIME will be a 95,000-word time-travel romance set in the wild west and the present.
ANOTHER TIME will be a 95,000-word time-travel romance set in the wild west and the present.
Synopsis: A simple incident of being in the wrong place at the wrong time propels Jessalyn McQuire back 100 years into a time of vigilante justice, half-breed cowboys and high-test horses. At first, Jess is pleasantly amused by the shenanigans of this overdone John Wayne reenactment, but as time goes on, and real bullets start to fly, humor turns into the mother of all headaches.
Devon Slade is baffled by the woman he finds alone, without a horse, (although she claimed to have had a car), dressed in men's clothing, black goo running down her face in a ghoulish manner, with no weapons and in need of assistance. Being graced with this problem when he was in the middle of making haste doesn’t endear her to him.
Chased by outlaws, attacked, robbed and nearly hung does little to entice Jess to stay in the Wild West. What she truly wants is a first class ticket back home and a chilled martini.
But, there is one little hitch to her quest to get back home; obnoxious as the man was, he had proven to be more dependable, more capable and more genuine than any man she had ever met.
If she could find her way home, would she really want to go?
Thank you Marta!
Devon Slade is baffled by the woman he finds alone, without a horse, (although she claimed to have had a car), dressed in men's clothing, black goo running down her face in a ghoulish manner, with no weapons and in need of assistance. Being graced with this problem when he was in the middle of making haste doesn’t endear her to him.
Chased by outlaws, attacked, robbed and nearly hung does little to entice Jess to stay in the Wild West. What she truly wants is a first class ticket back home and a chilled martini.
But, there is one little hitch to her quest to get back home; obnoxious as the man was, he had proven to be more dependable, more capable and more genuine than any man she had ever met.
If she could find her way home, would she really want to go?
Thank you Marta!
www.goodreads.com/.../show/18464921.Caren_Gallimore
“Ride the trails of Imagination”
Caren Gallimore
www.CarenGallimore.com
Saturday, March 23, 2019
A site that delivers what it promises
Hi, I don't get paid for sharing I just like Sandra Beckwith of BuildBookBuzz.com not just because she doesn't gauge authors but because she delivers what she promises, such as The 365 emails!
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Saturday, March 16, 2019
Friday, March 15, 2019
YouTube videos on Spilberg’s viewpoint
”Spielberg's Point of Thought
This video breaks down one the best secret pro tip from director Steven Spielberg. Through scene analyses and examples, we share how you can show the point of view inside a character's mind.”
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
Hi and welcome!: Was Mileva Einstein-Maric the real brain?
Hi and welcome!: Was Mileva Einstein-Maric the real brain?: Was Einst ein's first wife the brain behind the brain? Check out t he Time article about Mileva Einstein-Maric, ” Does Einstein’s...
Was Mileva Einstein-Maric the real brain?
Was Einstein's first wife the brain behind the brain? Check out the Time article about Mileva Einstein-Maric,
”Does Einstein’s First Wife Deserve Some Credit for His Work? That’s the Wrong Question to Ask”
Monday, March 11, 2019
Hi and welcome!: Small steps, big changes
Hi and welcome!: Small steps, big changes: Spring is almost here, tomorrow we change our clocks, it's also a good time to take a small inventory about how we can make more time f...
Saturday, March 09, 2019
Small steps, big changes
Spring is almost here, tomorrow we change our clocks, it's also a good time to take a small inventory about how we can make more time for ourselves on earth or just improve our health with steps.My daily horoscope said, but I think it's good for everyone: "take a long look today at what you can do to improve your health. Developing a positive routine is an excellent gift to give yourself, even if you’re already hale and hearty. The good news is that science has proven it only takes three weeks to replace one pattern of behavior with another. Whether it’s altering your exercise regime, changing your diet, or ending a bad habit, starting now increases your chances for long-term success. Every day is a fresh start."
I don't buy into all the other readings, have not found them necessary but I enjoy the Daily Horoscope reading. I get nothing for anyone signing up but here is the link -- Signup now!
Thursday, March 07, 2019
Used To Bee
All that was, and we were
Being there done that
What went
Leaving in memories how it was
When my faith was holier than yours
My church blessed by the ”real” god
As my priest or preacher assured
As he or she put robes on
And blessed all,
With the hand of god
Given to him/ger by whom?
Told us who we were
Learned us on how to be
Where to go and do
Matter, or not
For that's how we know
Not how to fly
But when to sidestep ditches
Lookout for the danger of feelings
Learn how not to dig old land mines
And expect won't explode
Leaving us shattered
Lost and not found
Marta
3/72019
Reflections for Lent
Hi and welcome!: Grant me Ashes
Hi and welcome!: Grant me Ashes: My Lent Meditations Grant me Ashes God, as I understand you grant me the valor to see truth not what I fear, want to se...
Grant me Ashes
Grant me Ashes
God, as I understand you
grant me the valor to see truth
not what I fear,
want to see, or want it to be.
An eye for reality
and another for day dreaming
a mouth to speak truth but not
push it on others.
A mind to remember my messy tracks,
mistakes and faults,
what I need to accept or change
but please
don't bother me too much because
it's my time
to kick back, breakout and do
my thing.
Compassion to accept
that reality can be hard or healing
and good or rough at times,
can build esteem with mistakes
despite screams and frowns,
from others.
Help me live this day not counting
blessings nor messes
not taking everyone’s inventory
and standing up for myself and others
even when on my butt.
Marta
3/7/2019
Friday, March 01, 2019
Great information and giveaways for authors!
Hi,
Are you frustrated and even overwhelmed by tons of sites that promise struggling authors a lot but only deliver rehashed stuff at a high price?
As a struggling author and get bombarded with promises of help in writing and publishing but usually get rehashed stuff.
I am not paid to write this, just sharing because someone shared it with me and it has delivered as promised. I am talking about Sandra Beckwith.
Sandra Beckwith
http://www.BuildBookBuzz.com
http://www.BuildBookBuzz.com
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
On The Wings Of Immortals - a series: Free self publishing advice
On The Wings Of Immortals - a series: Free self publishing advice: Self-publishing advice can be very expensive so when I find a site or author that truly helps for FREE with excellent information I am tha...
Free self publishing advice
Self-publishing advice can be very expensive so when I find a site or author that truly helps for FREE with excellent information I am thankful and share it. Some of those who provide free, and GOOD, advice include:
Am actual publishing site: Draft2Digital: https://www.draft2digital.com/mcw
And authors:
K.M. Weiland, https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/?s=publishing
Joanna Penn, Industry Insider: How to self-publish your novel (with Joanna Penn)
Monday, January 28, 2019
On The Wings Of Immortals - a series: Hi, I am looking into publishing The Sylph’s Tale ...
- Hi, I am looking into publishing The Sylph’s Tale as a Comic & Graphic Novel. Approximately 20k words/ fantasy-paranormal/ mythology.
- Based on Virgin/Angel love and their angel humans journey. Great reviews on Amazon - even though published incomplete.
- Screenplay adaptation, Ayekah the Damned, won a third-place award, got a great six-page review.
- Ready to re-publish. It's part of a three book series that I will publish this year.
- For more information please Message me or contact me on on Facebook, Marta C Weeks, Twitter mmaw, or contact me on my webpage martacweeks.com Can provide all my details. Thank you!
Monday, January 21, 2019
On The Wings Of Immortals - a series: I love K.M. Weiland!
On The Wings Of Immortals - a series: I love K.M. Weiland!: I love K.M. Weiland! You want some real and excellent advice on writing; in my opinion, she is one of the gurus. I relate to: "For...
I love K.M. Weiland!
I relate to: "For example, I hate revisions. Let me say that again: I hate, hate, hate revisions."
A MUST read:
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/how-to-create-the-perfect-writing-process-for-you/
A MUST listen to audio:
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